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casino gambling, you see increased child abuse, increased spousal abuse, and increased embezzlement and you just can't collect enough tax dollars to make up for it," governor pete ricketts said. keep the money in nebraska is behind those ballot petitions and spokesman, scott lautenbaugh voiced its stance on the other side of the issue. "we're losing the tax revenue that's being spent all around us because we're not allowing these opportunities here in nebraska, so we're just losing money," keep the money in nebraska scott lautenbaugh said. one petition is for a constitutional amendment that would allow casinos near licensed horse racing facilities. another establishes a gambling commission. the third would tax casinos, to benefit the state and the local communities where they appear. lautenbaugh said that could add up to $120 million dollars in taxes. each year, gambling with the good life said if approved by voters, the gambling initiatives would take away power from the legislature and governor. "we just got to get the truth out this is a very deceptive piece of legislation. it's very dangous. it's going to change our constitution for forever," gambling with the good life executive director pat loontjer said. two opposing viewpoints, which are battling how nebraskans should get their say. "for years, we heard nebraska voters don't want this. nebraskans don't want this. this is a chance to tell us this is what we want," lautenbaugh said. jenna:
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man barricaded inside a west omaha home. a spokesperson at the scene tells at omaha a-b-c station that a man called 911 saying he'd been shot, and that his girlfriend was being held hostage. authorities are trying to establish who is in the house and how many people are involved. jenna: the iowa utilities board has yet to make a decision on the dakota access pipeline that would run through the state. the board held its final scheduled meeting yesterday. during these meetings, board members have been revealing all they've learned over the past several months ... through sworn testimony and hearings. some still think the decision has already been
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members are getting more information from people on both sides of the issue ... and that is making the decision even more difficult. " it's a struggle. i don't like that part of this process." board members say, regardless of their decision, these companies will want to of their decision, these companies will want to transport crude oil. their spokesman says he believes they're taking the right steps to get closer to a decision. " it sounds like the board is trying to really narrow down the issues that they they're asking staff that." before the next meeting next friday, the board's legal team has been asked to put together a pros and cons list from this week's make their clearer. could be made at again ...there's no timeline for when they must make a decision. jenna: doctor has been board of medicine improperly treating patients.
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of improperly diagnosing and treating numerous patients for lyme disease and failing to recognize a case of stage four lung cancer in one of her patients. dr. rosman practices medicine in sibley and has denied the allegations. however she agreed to pay a five thousand dollar fine. jenna: students at east middle school lent a helping hand this morning peer helpers from the eighth grade class gathered in the lunch room to pack food bags for fellow students who otherwise might go hungry over the weekend. this is the 5th year the school is doing the project. the bags are eight to ten easy to make items that students can prepare on their own. they pass out about 125 bags every week. " not only does it help children and families who might need nutritional food but it also helps children such as these ones behind that you see, that are doing a service, that are helping others in our school at east middle." the students that helped pack the
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other students in need. ( jacob licht, 8th grader) " helping people who don't have all the resources that they need to get on in life and with these foods that we're packing and giving to kids it can help them not be hungry." (whitney lester, 8th grader) " it means a lot to me because it means kids will have food over the weekend. it will help with grades because they will be able to focus on class and not be hungry." the bags are distributed every friday afternoon at three locations inside the school. jenna: with valentines day just a few days away, floral in thyme are busy making deliveries to someone's significant other. on average these drivers are making around 20 to 30 deliveries a day. owner kathy bogenrief says just bring in extra drivers to help with the holiday rush. " it gets pretty hectic, we have to have more drivers of
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even have to have more people making the flowers up for us. so i got more designers on staff right now too." says owner kathy bogenrief. kathy says that the shop will be open sunday from 9am to around 4pm. but they won't get to relax afterwards, they will prepare for easter and mother's day. jenna: and if youre in need for some last minute plans for valentines day plans we have a rfect event for you. from 2-8pm this sunday the pete gode memorial als benefit concet will be rocking the hard rock casino, right here in downtown sioux city. the concert is set to feature four of siouxland's best local bands. the free concert will be held at the anthem and you must be 21 or older to attend. all proceeds go to benefit local siouxlanders suffering als jenna: next thursday marks the start of 11th season if one book one siouxland. there will be a kick off recception next thursday. one book one siouxland, is a community- wide reading initiative that brings
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together through discussion of one great book. this year's selection is " one summer: america, 1927" written by iowa native, bill bryson. the public is welcome to come to the reception at the orpheum theatre from 5-8pm thursday evening. jenna: a play called 'out of bounds' started a couple of years ago when a theater group teamed up with researchers at the university of iowa to battle bullying. the play was just the first part. now university researchers are introducing a new arts-related web toolkit. jill kasparie shows what it's all about. " " corinne peek-asa only needs a computer to show off the new online toolkit. the director of the u-i injury prevention research center calls it hear - which stands for helping educations use art to reduce bullying. [take sot at: 20:28:15 to: 20:28:30 duration:0:13]sot [camio3 (1) [two line l3] - corinne peek-asa injury prevention research ctr director (00:20 - 00:27 the toolkit is filled with all kinds of
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artistic activities for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. u-i students like emily weno helped by testing the activities in iowa classrooms. one - called 'complete the scene' - has students learn problem solving by acting out the ending of a bullying situation. [take sot at: 20:42:47 to: 20:42:54 duration:0:07]sot [camio3 (1) [two line l3] - emily weno university of iowa senior (00:51 - 00:58 researchers say they wanted to create this because classroom-based programs on bullying, those taught the same as math or science for instance, just aren't working. [take sot at: 20:33:58 to: 20:34:15 duration:0:17]sot [take sot at: 20:41:08 to: 20:41:20 duration:0:12]sot jenna: with a little more than a week until the nation's next democratic
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democratic presidential contest, bernie sanders and hillary clinton - had another high stakes debate. nevada and south carolina are up next but last night, the democrats faced off in wisconsin. fresh off her devastating defeat in new made the case be the heir to accused sanders of diminishing the president's record and leadership. presidential candidate: " the kind of criticism that we've heard from sen. sanders i expect from someone running succeed president bernie sanders (d) presidential "madam secretary that is a low blow." clinton and sanders are both trying to attract minority voters.
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white in iowa and new hampshire, carolina, more democratic vote could come from african americans. side, donald trump bursting with confidence republican primary in south carolina. the gop frontrunner isn't even in the state. he has been holding events in louisiana and florida. jenna: donald trump is threatening to sue senator ted cruz for quote -- "not being a natural born citizen." in a tweet, he wrote: "if ted cruz doesn't clean up his act, stop cheating and doing negative ads, i have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen." trump has previously said if cruz wins the republican nomination, democrats would argue the canada-born texas senator is ineligible for the presidency. the two are in tight race in south carolina heading into the state's g-o-p primary next week. trump previously slammed his chief presidential rival as a "total liar" as cruz and his allies have claimed trump favors
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universal health care. trump said he's been saying he's against "obamacare" in speeches for the past two years and would repeal and replace the program. jenna: get rerey for biggerernd better cell coverage. the next generation is on its way. a-t-and-t (at&t) says it will be ready to conduct field trials on its five-g (5g) network before the end of 2016. verizon made a similar announcement last year. five-g (5g) stands for "fifth generation." by definition, it'll be an upgrade to the four-g (4g) l- t-e network. it's not clear exactly how much of a power boost it will give your current upload and download speeds. ...but the two dominant carriers are making a public display of their technological arms. jenna: north korea has released footage of its recent rocket launch... complete with a countdown. the video intended as a documentary -- showkim jong-un flying to the launch site in his private jet and touring the facility. the footage also
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celebrating the regime's achievement. jenna: still to come... we will take a look at some food lables, stay with us fred: (fred) it will be very cold tonight, and we have some weekend snow on the way. but there are 40s next week! see you after the break for the it will be very cold
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on the way. but there are 40s next week! see you after the break for the forecast. " " (jenna) fred, it's going to get really cold tonight. (fred) yes, wind chills will be colder than -20 in the eastern parts of siouxland! fred: (fred) a a nd chill advisory will be in effect for eastern siououand in the lighghblue shaded areas until 9 am tomorrow morning. w wd chills of -20 to -30 will be seen in these areas. and, it will be very cold elsewhere, too. another threat will be slick roads. you can see slick spots remaining. here is the port neal welding company skycam hd in sioux city. 22 was the high today and 14 the low. the storm lake skycam hd shows the scene in storm lake. digits are seen chills are as cold as and they are about tonight. winds are miles per hour. zooming out, we can see our nene round of snow out westst
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the jet stream all week, and it appears that the big dig over the eastern us will flatten out a bit. that will allow temperatures to finally warm up a bit. regional temperatures show much warmer weather to our west. the warm front separating us from those warm temps will slide east tomorrow, and along that warm front we have a chance of snow late saturday, saturday night, and early sunday. warmer weather will build in sunday and monday. the snow forecast shows around 1" for sioux city but as much as 5"5"oward estherville. tononht, look for a aow of -2 and increasing clouds. tomorrow's high will only be 16 with a chance of snow in the afternoon and evening. the 7-day forecast shows much warmer weather next week, with highs in the 30s and 40s. fred: tim: jenna: (jenna) thanks, fred. jenna: coming up next well take a look at tips on reading
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jenna: whenent comes to food that is
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jenna: when it comes to food that is
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difficult to decipher all the words on the packaging. kelly bowman helps us crack the code in today's health minute. " " we want to help you be a smart shopper, so we called up a clinical dietitian to
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i would turn to the nutrition facts pannel first- that's where you're going to find the serving size, and then all of the amounts per serving what about the list of ingredients... how do we use that to our advantage? ingredients are listed in order of in the product, so most of, is listed really need to pay first three ingredients to see that product. are some key words i lookor sugar, i want to avoid a lot of added sugars.... difference between fats? even if it says, "zero label," if you see the fat" in the ingredients list, there could be up to half a gram of trans fats per serving in when do calories come into play? then i would the calories because in beverages we basically don't want to be drinking any calories. after the break...
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art show that shows just how talents our local college students are. stay tuned. jenna: dad: i know. spots. culligan man: the problem is your water! anncr: a culligan whole-house water conditioning system gets rid of sediment or impurities. so keeping everything spotless is effortless. mom: hey. dad: the culligan man.
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the art of some talented local college students. terri mcgaffin, from the morningside college art department, joins me today. event name: morningside college student art show event location: eppley art gallery, 3625 garretson, on the campus of morningside college event date(s) & time(s): exhibit: feb 5 - march 3, 2016; art gallery hours: monday - friday 8:00 - 5:00 reception and announcement of awards: feb 17, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
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applicable): contact phone tv: 274 5229 name of person to appear in live interview:terri mcgaffin, associate professor and department tell us a little bit about your event or attach a press release. morningside college hosts a student art show every year at this time. any current student can enter 1 or 2 works of art. prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for each category will be awarded at the reception. the cateries are photography, and graphic design. judges this year are sioux city artists pauline sensenig and robert gillespie. jenna: fred's back next
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stay with us.
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tonight, l breaking news tonight. what donald trump just threatened to do. trump tonight saying he might sue ted cruz over being born in canada.
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bernie sanders is asked, is he standing in the way of history? the first woman president. how he answers. and a horrific machete attack at an american accident. and, temperatures not seen in almost 100 years. silence broken. >> could you have prevented what happened to columbine? and tim tebow is here tonight. hard to imagine he had trouble at the prom. tonight, how he's helping thousands. good evening. great to have you with us on a busy friday night. breaking news in the race for

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